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Leadership: A Global Perspective

N2Growth Blog

When you sit down with people who have a passion for human talent ( whether it is developing it, advising, or placing the right person into the job ), you gain a perspective into what matters when it comes to making business more efficient and relevant in today’s context. Johannesburg, South Africa. Conclusion.

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A Board Director's Perspective on What IT Has to Get Right

Harvard Business Review

I''m often struck by how many articles exclusively focus on new or emerging technology and their productivity or efficiency effects. Note that the high-profile C-suite executives at firms like Borders, Jessops, and Bank of New England had large IT budgets, but no longer have a company to make more efficient today.).

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Is Your Organization Ready for Total Digitization?

Harvard Business Review

We at MIT CISR have found that enterprises are using one or more of three approaches to managing total digitization: convergence, coordination, or a separate digital innovation stacks approach. At Boeing, all enterprise technology (including digital) investments are managed by the CTO, which enables significant synergies. Convergence.

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How Sephora Reorganized to Become a More Digital Brand

Harvard Business Review

Sephora has always been an innovative global business, doing things a little differently, which is what drew me to the brand. When you arrived, what did you see as the opportunities and priorities for increasing digital innovation? Yet based on my own experiences, I believed we could use technology to make shopping more efficient.

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The First 90 Days in a New CIO Position

Harvard Business Review

Managing this rapid change and fostering innovation while "keeping the trains running on time" is the primary leadership role required of any CIO, new or old. This will allow us to most effectively allocate resources to the most strategic and innovation-focused initiatives. Generate Room for Innovation.

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How IT Professionals Can Embrace the Serendipity Economy

Harvard Business Review

With Frederick''s Taylor invention of scientific management in the 1880s, and its subsequent assimilation into what we now consider modern management, organizations have used logic and rationality to the eliminate waste, to seek efficiency, and to transfer human knowledge to tools and processes. The New CTO: Chief Transformation Officer.

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How IBM, Intuit, and Rich Products Became More Customer-Centric

Harvard Business Review

Yet wanting to be closer with customers, and knowing what actual, operational pathways to take in order to achieve this are two very different things. The Future of Operations. The designers were focused on creating better user experiences, while the engineers were focused on speed, quality, and efficiency. Insight Center.